J.J. Abrams Strikes me as a Fanboy, So I Love Him 3x’s More

Okay, I know I just posted videos for Dollhouse, but I don’t want to waste time in posting this awesome video for Fringe with series creator J.J. Abrams. I want to thank TVGuide.com for the video, and from that link you can also read more with Abrams.

What can you tell from the video? Well, I don’t know how keen you are (kidding) but what I sense (and have sensed since Felicity aired) is that J.J Abrams is a man of enormous creative talent. You might know his name in association with the TV shows Alias, Lost, or the movie Cloverfield. Now he’s bringing us his new show, Fringe. Abrams is a fan of mysteries (at least I think this is a fair guess) and he’s rethinking his methods of how he develops and shows them.

Even if you never watched Cloverfield, I bet you know what it is, and you were interested in it - talking about it with friends in the car or strangers online because of that amazing viral marketing campaign that they had. It pulled you into it, like uh - well, substitute your own brand of metaphor here.

Alias was frickin’ amazing and powerful in the first two (or three) seasons. After that, it did lose some of the magic, the center didn’t hold (yes I’m thinking of both a Sylvia Plath poem and a scene from Bones as I type that). There were too many things going on, people were confused, and you lost what made the show so great at the beginning. When it ended, there was a bit more of a sigh of relief than anything else.

Abrams realized that Alias didn’t end as well as it could have, I’m guessing, which is why he advance-planned the date for the end of Lost. And Lost, as all fans know, has more than its fair share of mysteries. Giving Lost an end-date tells people to hang on, it tells them there is a specific plan. With a show like that, that really helps. They can set the pacing.

Another thing that stands out to me, about Abrams, is how passionate he is about his projects. I think he’s a fanboy himself. He’s humble, he wears cute glasses, and well - I’m just a big fan! I’m curious to hear what you guys think of what Fringe will be. Are you excited to see it? Don’t you want to watch just to see Joshua Jackson back on TV? (Or is the Joshua thing just a me-thing?)